Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
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Tabby vs PuTTY Comments
- Tabby is Free and Open Source
- Tabby is Customizable
PuTTY AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Shells
The best Shell alternative to PuTTY is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PuTTY and 16 are Shells so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Shell alternatives to PuTTY are Termux, PowerShell, ReTerminal and ZOC.
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- 111 Tabby alternatives
107 Termux alternativesExperience a powerful Unix terminal on Android without the need for rooting. Customize with packages via Apt, run command-line tools, SSH, and program in C, Python, and more. Enjoy a full Unix environment with bash, zsh, mouse support, and external display compatibility.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
- zsh
- GNU Bourne Again SHell
68 PowerShell alternativesPowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
PowerShell vs PuTTY Comments
Top Positive CommentSince recently Microsoft has integrates OpenSSH in Windows 10 natively, so PowerShell (and Windows terminal) may now connect to SSH hosts from the command line, as you would do from LINUX or OS/X. PuTTY however has many more functions.
Top Negative CommentPuTTY is for remote terminal access, via SSH, Telnet, serial, etc.. Powershell is a shell for scripting not SSH or Telent access.
as stated by others here PuTTY is a TTY/network serial control application, and PowerShell is a local "terminal-like" application with no remote/TTY capabilities. there is no similarity here
- PowerShell is Free and Open Source
61 ReTerminal alternativesReTerminal is a sleek, Material 3-inspired terminal emulator designed as a modern alternative to the legacy Jackpal Terminal. Built on Termux's robust TerminalView.
76 ZOC alternativesZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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ZOC vs PuTTY Comments
Top Positive Commenthansolo1988Just let me say one thing: Try managing 200 hosts for 10+ clients in the host directory of Putty and ZOC.
Foworax J. SmithMuch nicer user interface.
grercltabs, ease of use, very easy to customize
- ZOC is Paid and Proprietary
105 Terminal alternativesTerminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.
Tempest is a free, cross platform, privacy first, SSH client, Local terminal and Kubernetes terminal.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
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63 Termux Monet alternativesA terminal emulator application for Android 8+ OS extendible by variety of packages, with Monet support and experimental features.
MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
It is a Windows CE port of famous PuTTY (free, BSD licensed open source SSH terminal for Windows). I started to port PuTTY as a part of my diploma thesis. After quite big success (10.000 downloads during 1st month after release), I decided to polish the code and open the source...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows Mobile
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I think Tabby is overall easier and more smoother to work with. Specially since you get tabs, themes etc. If you just want to ssh into this than that I don't know why you wouldn't switch to tabby.